Can you get local gardeners/horticulturists/landscapers/designers to donate time so people can renovate or start existing gardens? You could have a slide show of gardens they've done, and then everyone gets to bid on, say, 4 hours of design consult, or 4 hours of edible-garden planning, or 4 hours of site consult, or 4 hours of compost-bin setup and instruction. It would be great if the event were focused on food gardens, composting, bird/butterfly gardening, heirloom tomato varieties -- lots of opportunities for great slides. Find an auctioneer to handle the bidding.
At 2:55 PM -0800 12/3/07, susan finlayson wrote: >Hello folks! > >Susan here in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our community gardening >organization, Wasatch Community Gardens, is looking to do a simple, >creative, FUN event in February to help raise grassroots money and >awareness about a downtown community garden we are trying to >purchase and save by March. > >Does anyone have ideas for a WINTERTIME community garden event? We >are thinking we could charge 10 or 20 dollars to attend, invite the >media, etc. Thoughts we've had so far are having it in the garden >with tents and heaters, starting seeds in flats for people to take >with them and start for the garden, a wintery outdoor art exhibit... >Ideally it wuold e something low cost and not require tooo much time >to plan. > >Thoughts??? Thanks for sharing your ideas! > >Susan Finlayson > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Be a better friend, newshound, and >know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. >http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: >http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20071203/74498628/attachment.html > > >_______________________________________________ >The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one >of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the >ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to >http://www.communitygarden.org > >To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] > >To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: >http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
